Yoel Stuart

I’m excited to announce I was selected as a 2024 Biota Award recipient from the Walder Foundation! We're going to be working on fish conservation on the Fox River, Illinois, and beyond! Learn more about the Biota Awards here walderfoundation.org/biota-awards

New Paper. Evidence for early stages of speciation in the fossil record. Darwin pleased? doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… @calebdmcmahan @ucmpberkeley Thanks to @NSF for funding.

I am very proud! The Phenotypic Evolution Time Series (PETS) database is now online! pets.nhm.uio.no PETS is a public database containing data on phenotypic change within (fossil and contemporary) lineages. Why did we make it? A short 🧵

The Department of Biology at Loyola U Chicago is searching for a TT assistant professor in genetics, genomics, or bioinformatics. A great department in a great city on Lake Michigan. Happy to answer questions! @DiversifyEEB @ASNAmNat @sse_evolution careers.luc.edu/postings/26584

Please share widely. The Department of Biology at Loyola University Chicago is searching for a new assistant professor in genetics, genomics, or bioinformatics. I am chairing the search and will happily answer any questions about the position. careers.luc.edu/postings/26656

A description of our attempt to see if nuclear fallout affects population evolution. The dang Daphnia didn't hatch though. At least the radioisotope dating data are usable.

A resurrection ecology test for the effects of ionizing radiation and other environmental correlates on Daphnia evolution biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

Evolutionary justice rdcu.be/c2Sjn @yestuart reviews Joseph L. Graves Jr's memoir 'A Voice in the Wilderness'

@ambikamath Ha! I did not find it. My training is lax.

Biology Dept. at Loyola U. Chicago hiring 3 NTTs on 3yr renewable contracts to teach Neuro, Cell Bio, or Genetics. NTT are unionized and treated well here. Chicago is awesome. Neurosci: careers.luc.edu/postings/21975 Cell Biol: careers.luc.edu/postings/21974 Genetics: careers.luc.edu/postings/21973

Highlighting two new papers by my former tech and current U. Chicago grad student Sam Swank. On parallel (or not) evolution of vertebrate hindlimb reduction at the genetic level. Pitx1 not as prevalent as we predicted. @ThSanger onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

@LizardMichele PDF approach too. "Handwritten" digital comments and edits with a tablet and stylus. Students get both and it keeps me from over editing with the keyboard.

"preview" the document and only see Track Changes, missing the comments altogether. Sigh...will have to reassess my approach. (2/2)

As instructors, we're told that editing student writing directly often doesn't teach writing well - it's too easy to just "accept all changes" without critically considering the edits. So I often make comments on Word docs. But I've just realized that students often just (1/2)

A few folks have asked. I haven't started reviewing apps yet. Also, Loyola treats postdocs as teaching faculty for some reason. Hence the ask for the formal teaching and diversity statements. Teaching is optional, for CV, interest, or to extend funding. It's a postdoc position.

I'm hiring! @NSF CAREER award. Postdoc to prepare, collect, and analyze data from a high-resolution, long-term threespine stickleback fossil series. Questions of evolutionary tempo and mode, micro- and macro evolution. 5yrs lakeside in awesome Chicago. careers.luc.edu/postings/19827

@Tris_Kos Looking forward to it, Tristan! You've had a productive two years!

Thanks for the memories @yestuart ! Now to defend my thesis online, BC it's the future. Excited to see my cats again!

@ucmpberkeley @MCZpaleo @PaleoSoc @SVP_vertpaleo @sse_evolution @EAVPalaeo @DiversifyEEB @ASNAmNat @eseb_org @FieldMuseum

@rogbennett Now that you're a birder ... a book! Ravens in Winter, by Bernd Heinrich. Ravens, winter, carrion, a German, mystery, isolation, confusion, despair, discovery, joy. goodreads.com/book/show/1226…

New, funded @NSF EAGER with @coleyjthomp and Matt Walsh @UTA_Science! Does irradiation drive evolution in wild populations? Resurrection ecology with Daphnia. Cores from 8 Utah Lakes in the Nevada Test Site fallout zone (100 above ground nuclear tests!) tinyurl.com/ybuj6o6w

@DanielBolnick @ASNAmNat Pitx1 actually. It's usually EDA thought, given Dolph's talk just before.